The Illustrated Zuleika Dobson
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Book Description
Max Beerbohm's whimsical tale of a beautiful girl who takes Oxford by storm is illustrated with his own charming sketches.
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"Perfectly delightful... all style and wit, a pretty fantasy served up in exquisite, ornamented prose... It is a book that would have doubtless pleased even the fussy author himself." -Michiko Kakutani, New York Times
"A perfect fantasy." -V. S. Pritchett, New York Review of Books
"The mixture of factual background and fantastic elaboration so characteristic of the text is now balanced visually by parodies." -Alan Bell, Times Literary Supplement
"The pictures add enormously to the pleasure we take in [Beerbohm's] elegantly stylized satire." -New Yorker
"The illustrations are charming, the style is both erudite and lively." -Walter Kendrick, Village Voice
"Graceful, witty, and charming, the illustrations... delight us." -Sam Pickering, Sewanee Review
The Illustrated Zuleika Dobson
The Illustrated Zuleika Dobson,Max Beerbohm,Yale University Press,0300097328,Beerbohm, Max, 1872-1956,Classics,Fiction,Fiction - General,Literary,Modern fiction
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